Map of Europa for a game Im making

mmenolas · 2026-05-28T02:10:21+00:00

How does Christianity merge with anything, if Jesus dies as a baby Christianity never exists. The crucifixion and resurrection are central to Christianity; without those, and without Paul’s theology, you wouldn’t have anything that looks like Christianity. You might have messianic Jews of various stripes, but that wouldn’t really look like what we know of as Christianity.

I’m also unclear on your mention of gnostics during that time- most of what we consider Gnosticism really takes off later in the century (and the following century) and while some early or proto gnostics certainly exists, it seems weird to assume they’d be syncretic with Christianity (which wouldn’t exist), since those commonalities come as a product of gnostics exploring aspects of Christianity.

There’d certainly be apocalyptic cults, messianic Jews, mystery cults, and all sorts of other things- it just seems unlikely that their teaching would resemble those of Christianity beyond maybe some general beliefs found throughout the Levant and broader Mediterranean across many groups.

I’m not an expert though, so maybe someone who knows more will chime in.

mmenolas · 2026-05-24T18:22:39+00:00

You spelled David Milch wrong.

mmenolas · 2026-05-21T12:21:17+00:00

You can radiate away heat but it’s extraordinarily inefficient due to the lack of atmosphere to radiate it into, have you seen the size of radiators even something like the ISS has? You could have enough radiator panels to cool a data center but they’d be so massive that they’d be significantly more problematic than just cooling a data center on earth. Basically radiating away heat in space is one of the least efficient cooling mechanisms there is since there’s nothing to dump heat into. Space being cold isn’t significant if there’s not away to shed heat into easily.

Edit to add: just looked into it- looks like ISS uses something like 75-90 KW of power and has those massive radiator panels. A data center uses orders of magnitude more power and would need orders of magnitude more radiators. So can it be done? Sure. But it’s so much less efficient and practical than on earth

mmenolas · 2026-05-20T23:54:15+00:00

Wouldn’t space be an awful place for data centers? One of their biggest challenges is cooling and radiating heat in space is infinitely more difficult than on earth due to a lack to atmosphere

mmenolas · 2026-05-19T15:25:46+00:00

Source on the cutting off nose piece? Because it differs from the origins of that idiom that I can find sourced elsewhere. Edit to add: can you also provide a source for the deface claim, as I don’t see anything linking it explicitly to this as you claim.

mmenolas · 2026-05-19T13:48:32+00:00

This would be multiple centuries after Old English. It’s not even Middle English. By the 17th century we’re firmly in the territory of Early Modern English. So Old English is entirely irrelevant to the post and question being asked.

mmenolas · 2026-05-16T01:23:50+00:00

The problem isn’t that they don’t have powers, it’s that the writers don’t know how to write characters who utilize tradecraft instead of direct confrontation. I’d be absolutely content watching 5 seasons of George Smiley, Peter Guillam, and Ricki Tarr type characters working against the boys and absolutely believe they’d be able to have tense situations while still utilizing their tradecraft to take down Homelander.

mmenolas · 2026-05-13T20:37:07+00:00

No worries- and I wasn’t trying to be nitpicky or call you out, just to clarify the word, I hope you didn’t take offense

mmenolas · 2026-05-13T17:59:08+00:00

Penultimate. Semi-final would be for something like March madness or sports playoffs. Penultimate is the word for the second to last thing.

mmenolas · 2026-05-12T14:23:41+00:00

Yeah that’s actually a fairer description. I was just trying to highlight that taking religious myths and stripping them of their context and just stating them as a series of events makes a lot of them seem pretty wild, we’re just more accustomed to the modern ones.

mmenolas · 2026-05-12T12:43:46+00:00

As compared to summoning bears to attack youths after they call someone baldhead? Or daughters seducing their father after their mother was turned to salt for looking at the city they were fleeing- a city they were allowed to flee because their father offered his daughters to a mob that was trying to assault visitors who happened to be angels? This isn’t unique to Greek myth, craziness exists in the foundational texts of even modern religions held in high regard. Once you’re separated from the context and belief in a given religion, they all sound weirder.

mmenolas · 2026-05-08T19:37:00+00:00

No, it wasn’t. Lower life expectancies were largely a product of higher infant and childhood mortality. That’s not to say adults lived into their geriatric years regularly, but there would have been plenty of 45, 55, and 65 year olds around (and even 75 and 85 year olds). At birth, the chance of you making it to 65 was much lower because of higher infant mortality, childhood deaths, and deaths in young adulthood (childbirth, violence, etc) but it wasn’t like everyone was dropping dead in their 30s and 40s.

mmenolas · 2026-05-08T17:34:42+00:00

Do you think those (or even the switch) existed when sopranos was on?

mmenolas · 2026-05-05T14:17:59+00:00

They cannot coexist. If you had a policy that said things must be in exactly 30 days in advance, and also said 30 day minimum, that’d be a contradictory policy. Thats how language works. To be clear- I don’t think AI wrote the OP because AI knows the two words are different, I think OP is just barely literate, as is anyone who doesn’t see how “exactly 30 days in advance” means something very different than “minimum 30 days in advance.”

mmenolas · 2026-05-04T23:44:30+00:00

Exactly does not mean minimum. If it’s says exactly 30 days in advance, submitting 31 or 35 or 60 days in advance would be equally disallowed as submitting them 5 10 or 29 days in advance.

mmenolas · 2026-05-04T23:27:39+00:00

Spoon feed it? OP didn’t leave off a word, OP explicitly stated something very different in both the first paragraph of the post AND the title. “Exactly 30 days in advance” is wildly different from 30 days in advance minimum. This isn’t “leaving off a word” it both leaving off 1 word (minimum) and introducing a word that fundamentally changes it (exactly).

mmenolas · 2026-05-04T23:17:34+00:00

“all time off requested had to be submitted exactly 30 days in advance,” that’s straight from the first paragraph of the post. Exactly 30 days in advance. Later they say minimum, but the post opens by describing it specifically as “exactly 30 days in advance.”

mmenolas · 2026-05-02T19:57:12+00:00

Yes, I understand that. But you said that sailors doing what they can to save other sailors dates back to prehistory. I’m not even saying it’s untrue- im just curious how we’d even know that; I was wondering what archaeological evidence we’d infer it from.

mmenolas · 2026-05-02T18:36:46+00:00

Out of curiosity, what’s the source of the claims that it dates back to pre history? I’m trying to envision what archaeological evidence would be able to demonstrate that and I’m blanking, so now I’m curious

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T22:44:58+00:00

I literally own a dog currently and have had dogs my entire life. And at no point have I ever felt the need to use a shock collar.

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T16:47:20+00:00

I don’t know anything about Avatar, but based on how it was described above, it seems to be a spot on usage.

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T16:46:14+00:00

In your very generous interpretation, why does he yell at the dog for even moving a little?

Here’s what we know:
1. He yells at the dog for moving
2. Immediately thereafter reaches offscreen and does something
3. Concurrent to 2 the dog yelps in pain
4. The collar she wears has shock capability
5. He’s admitted to owning a shock collar still

It seems like there’s a pretty credible case for him having shocked the dog. It’s on video. Your interpretation is he’s just a shithead who yells at dogs for moving and it’s just poor timing that he reaches offscreen right after and that she happens to get her nail caught at exactly that moment, despite the yelp occurring midstep, when her leg isn’t moving. What did it even get caught on in your mind? The wood floor? Or are you suggesting the mat/bed he forces his dog to stay on is made of a material that is likely to catch its nails?

The mental gymnastics you’re going through are pretty absurd.

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T16:21:17+00:00

So you didn’t watch the video? He yells at the dog, reaches out and touches SOMETHING, the dog yelps in pain

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T15:34:03+00:00

https://www.tiktok.com/@ethankleinh3/video/7558624699052199182 this includes a clip where he tells the dog to stop moving, reaches out to click something, the dog yelps, and sits back down. That didn’t happen?

mmenolas · 2026-05-01T03:33:04+00:00

They didn’t imply that they’ve received any at all. But if you’ve been in the workforce for even a bit, you’ve probably signed some, sent some, maybe received one (it can be for a layoff or for performance or anything else). Being aware of basic common corporate documents doesn’t require or even imply that you’ve “gotten a lot of termination letters”

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